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Direct Action: An Historical Novel

by Luke Hauser

More than 7000 people were arrested in nonviolent protests in California in the early 1980s, developing the art of direct action to a peak not reached again until Seattle in 1999, and in many ways never surpassed.

Direct Action is the novelized history of a community of activists who helped lay the foundations for today’s direct action movement, from Seattle to Occupy and beyond.